Decentralized social community Bluesky is rolling out a brand new in-app video and music participant for hyperlinks, together with a brand new “hide post” function. The brand new additions carry Bluesky’s consumer expertise nearer to X (Twitter).
The brand new video and music participant works with YouTube, SoundCloud, Spotify and Twitch embeds. In contrast to on X, the place autoplay on movies is the default setting, Bluesky’s in-app participant received’t autoplay content material. If customers watch to observe or take heed to the content material, they should set off it with a faucet.
As for the brand new “hide post” function, you possibly can click on on it if there’s one thing you don’t need to see once more. The put up shall be eliminated out of your feeds and “put behind a mask if you visit it directly,” Bluesky says.
Along with these new options, Bluesky has fastened a bug that prompted muted and blocked account listings to point out as empty. The social community additionally fastened a difficulty that might trigger an empty house display screen, together with a crash bug that might generally happen whereas interacting with threads.
At the moment’s announcement comes a number of days after Bluesky finally started allowing customers take a look at posts on its platform with out logging in. You continue to want an invitation to create an account and begin posting, however you possibly can learn posts by a hyperlink. With this transfer, publishers can hyperlink to or embed Bluesky posts in blogs. Plus, customers can now share Bluesky posts in particular person or group chats.
Bluesky, which launched its iOS and Android apps again in February, hit 2 million users final month. Whereas Bluesky is presently the one occasion on the AT Protocol, it’s aiming for federation “early next year,” which suggests it should ultimately perform as a extra open social community like Mastodon the place customers can choose and select which servers to affix and transfer their accounts round at will.
